Unit 1 ~ Till 1607 Making Arguments From Images Every group has been assigned a category for analysis: Political, Economic, Social, Environmental, or Cultural.

Unit 1 ~ Till 1607Making Arguments From Images

Every group has been assigned a category for analysis: Political, Economic, Social, Environmental, or Cultural (P; Ec; S; En; C; aka ‘PESEC’).

Student Instructions: Search through the following pages. Locate the best images that allow you to make arguments that comment on history till 1607 through your individual PESEC category. Select a range of images you will present to the class (3-7). You will create a presentation for the class focused on using images to analyze aspects of history in the Americas up to 1607. Use those images to explain history with a focus on your PESEC category.

Essential Questions

P Group: What does this image reveal about Politics?

Ec Group: What does this image reveal about Economics?

S Group: What does this image reveal about Social organizations?

En Group: What does this image reveal about human-Environment interactions?

C Group: What does this image reveal about Cultures?

Your presentation will be a PowerPoint during which you show classmates the images you selected while explaining what conclusions can be made about each image regarding your PESEC category of analysis.

Source: Theodor de Bry “The New Queen”, an engraving by made from a 16th c drawing by Jacque le Moyne, a French colonist in Florida.

In terms of politics: This tribe shows a matriarchy or matriarchal tendencies allowing females power. This Indian queen is revered and rules over this tribe. Warfare.In terms of society: This image shows hierarchy. Socially this women has higher status than other women. It also shows matriarchy in that she is a powerful woman.

Example of an Image and PESEC analysis

Source: “The Village of

Secoton” by English artist John

White, 1585-1586.

Source: Map of the Aztec capital Tenotchtitlan published with a collection of letters

from Hernan Cortes in 1524.

Source: A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita in Chaco Canyon in

present-day New Mexico.

Source: English artist John White portraying ten male and seven female Native

Americans from an Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

Source: Depiction of Spanish and Native Americans, 1621.

Source: Map of Native American ways of life, ca.1500.

Source: Engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a 16th century painting of Florida

Indians by French colonist Jacques Le Moyne .

Source: An engraving of an

Iroquois longhouse by a French

Jesuit, seventeenth-century.

Source: Columbus’s Landfall, a Spanish engraving from a pamphlet, 1493.

Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction

of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

Source: An image from the Florentine Codex created by native artists under direction

of a Spanish Catholic missionary in the 16th century.

Source: English artist John White

portraying Native Americans from an

Atlantic Seaboard tribe, 1585-1586.

Source: Paintings by Mexican

artist Andrés de Islas, 18th century.

↑ ‘mestizo’ child ↑ ‘castizo’ child

‘coyote’ child → ← ‘chino’ child

Source: A banner carried by Spanish troops led by Cortes, 16th century.

Source: Engraving by Dutch Protestant Theodor de Bry depicting the Spanish and

Indians in Cuzco (present-day Peru) in 1532.